---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 1220d"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "1220d"
heading: "“Obsolete ship” defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/1220d"
units:
  - "Chapter 25B — Reefs for Marine Life Conservation"
---

# §1220d. “Obsolete ship” defined


For purposes of sections [1220](/usc/16/1220.md), [1220a](/usc/16/1220a.md), [1220b](/usc/16/1220b.md), and [1220c](/usc/16/1220c.md) of this title, the term “obsolete ship” means any vessel owned by the Department of Transportation that has been determined to be of insufficient value for commercial or national defense purposes to warrant its maintenance and preservation in the national defense reserve fleet and has been designated as an artificial reef candidate.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–402, § 8, formerly § 7, as added Pub. L. 98–623, title II, § 207(4), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3397; renumbered § 8, Pub. L. 107–314, div. C, title XXXV, § 3504(a)(1)(A), Dec. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 2754.)